Memes are a good example of a snapshot in time that doesn’t make sense 10, 20 years after.
People will look at a dancing baby and wonder why we thought it was worth sharing.
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The funny thing about all this is … what are we getting wrong today?
There are practices, beliefs, sayings and actions that we completely normalize in our current time. Future generations may look at us strangely for the things we portray today without us knowing.
hansl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Probably the first viral meme I ever saw on the internet … but back then it was the size of a postage stamp on a 12" CRT monitor and it made us feel like it was the year 2050 … funny enough, the first GIF (or animated image file, I didn’t know what I was looking at) I ever saw was porn on a wealthy friend’s 386 PC and we all thought he was the coolest person alive.
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 10 months ago
I feel like it's not nearly as hard as people make it out to be, very conveniently excusing their carelessness by insisting that nobody else is paying attention either and sometimes even lashing out at anyone who points out (let alone calls out) a problem, or simply something that could be stated better. Can we stop throwing around "crazy" and "insane" whist people are still being called those terms as an attack based on mental illness? You know, that thing that seemingly everyone has because mental health isn't taken seriously enough? Nah, "words change." How about "savage?" That one "changed" too. Some still think "gay" is a term for anything they dislike. I remember people insisting that word had changed, too. It hadn't, of course. Seems like many (most?) just want to act however pops into their heads without ever thinking about it :-\ Few want to hear they've done anything wrong, even when they clearly very much have; fewer still will bother to self-examine.
I suppose my point is, I think that taking some actual care in how we act and especially _inter_act can reveal these issues before they become "oh wow, tee hee we were so silly back before someone told us that women were people!"
kandoh@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I’ve been thinking about this.
Eating meat will be the big one. You look at history and meat was a rare treat, now it’s the main part of almost every meal.
People will watch media where the characters grab a hotdog on the street corner and it will seem both barbaric and decadent.
There’s probably something we are doing with children too that will seem odd. It takes a village to raise them after all and we isolate them with two parents that also have to work full time jobs. Can’t be good for either.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Nah, soon there will be synthetic meat and eating it will be better than ever.
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Common adoption of synthetic meat would make the act of eating real animals seem even more fucked up.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yeah it would be reserved for the fucked-up decadent 1%.